RE: Trump Claims He Can Use Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship
October 31, 2018 at 1:33 pm
(October 31, 2018 at 1:12 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: I'm pretty sure he did this to pander to his base. He knows he can't do this. Any order to do this would get stopped in the first court it landed in. They (the base) are stupid enough to maybe buy it .... it's a stunt aimed at deflecting attention from other things going on Trump is pissed about .... attention for Jewish victims ... (he HAD to get that over with on Tuesday so he could go back to raising hell in his little rallies.)
I'm pretty sure your analysis is spot on. IF this were to actually come to pass, and SCOTUS upheld it, it would be an unmistakable signal that the rule of law is over, and that we live in a failed republic. Though IMO, we're already there and have been for some time.